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A cleaner uses a fogging machine to clean a train carriage during the night
RAILWAY cleaners protested outside the Department for Transport (DfT) today, calling on the government to end the “scandal” of poverty pay.
Members of rail union RMT working for 10 outsourced contracts around the UK network will be taking strike action on December 22, 23 and 31.
They are calling on Transport Secretary Mark Harper to ensure that sub-contractors make pay offers to tackle “endemic low pay” in the industry.
EDDIE DEMPSEY explains why the RMT is calling for urgent action against assaults on staff and passengers on our public transport system
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
